The Tower of Rockbox

Introduction

Many moons ago, a tradition was born for Rockboxers and friends alike. When a small group of these beings (scientific name: Rockboxus hackerus) gathered together, they would build unusual structures with their DAPs. These structures became known as "Tower of Rockbox".

Here on this page, Rockboxers the world over may post pictures of their Towers they built at gatherings, or with a large collection of supported players, both intact or opened up.

How to post

Simply take a good snapshot of your Tower, and post it here, along with:

* Where it was taken, and when * What players were used in its construction, and * Your forum/IRC/real name

With that, begin the ritual construction!

Gallery of Towers

The following seems to be the first known example:

To prove that the tradition has been along us already from the start, check out this picture from April 2002 featuring Linus and Björn and a bunch of Archoses.

This Tower of Rockbox was built when markunvisited New York City on 10 Oct, 2007. We used Marcoen's Gigabeat F, my iPod video (5.5G 30GB) and Archos JBRv1, and an H320 and H120 from two of my friends who were there with us. -- Posted by LambdaCalculus379 on 30 Nov, 2007 at 20:45.

Llorean's Rockboxes, nearly Rockboxes, and Rockboxes currently on loan to him:

DevConPub London, 6 Mar 2008. featuring rockboxed and proto-rockboxed devices from linuxstb, pondlife, shotofadds and stripwax Apologies for the pretty awful quality, but all we had was a camera phone and a very dark pub off of The Strand ...

RockHenge

Empire Rockbox Building

gevaerts's current collection:

Slightly less players, but higher:

DevConEuro 2008:

Here it is, folks... the biggest, baddest Tower of Rockbox constructed at DevConEuro2008! Try and guess all of the players used in its construction!

The "Hoboken Tower of Rockbox":

Apologies for the grain quality; all we had was a cell phone camera with limited quality. Anyway, this Tower was constructed by LambdaCalculus379 and wpyh at a pub in Hoboken, New Jersey.

This Tower was built with an Archos Jukebox 5000, an Archos JBRv1, two iPod videos (30GB and 80GB), an iPod color, a Toshiba Gigabeat S, a Sansa c200, an Onda VX767, and a Meizu M3 MusicCard. (Okay, so we cheated a bit. :P)

This Tower was built with an Archos Jukebox 5000, an Archos JBRv1, a bunch of iriver H100s, three Gigabeasts, three Gigabeat F's, two iPod videos, an iPod color, a 2nd gen iPod, an iAudio X5L, a Sansa e200, a Sansa c200, a Meizu M6SP, and an H300. I may have missed one or two players, but you should be able to spot them.

You can also spot a couple of the beers evilnick was enjoying that night over in the back.